Kavita Patel, who works with Senior Adviser Valerie Jarrett and who worked for years before as a physician, debunks the myth that reform will mean a "government takeover" of health care or lead to "rationing." To the contrary, reform will forbid many forms of rationing that are currently being used by insurance companies.

The worst U.S. recession since the Great Depression will probably end in the third quarter, but uncertainty exists over the speed and duration of the economic recovery, according to the most recent survey of private economists.

Users are complaining in droves on Internet forums that machines configured with faster, 7,200-rpm Seagate hard disk drives (HDD) make clicking and beeping noises that are often a precursor to slowdowns and freeze-ups.

Quentin Tarantino's ultra-violent Nazi revenge movie has plenty of drama but the real story is even better. Kim Masters tells her personal connection to the heroic band of Jewish commandos known as X Troop: "My father was an Inglourious Basterd. Actually, he was the opposite of that. But he was a Jewish commando in the British Army during WWII"

A Melbourne, Florida woman thought she was helping out a severely disabled man by feeding him and changing his diapers for three months, but it turns out she may have just been catering to a weird guy's baby...

Can't wait to try Chain Sudoku? You can start now with the 5x5 sample on this page. Then, you can continue to the Chain Sudoku page in the Puzzles section to learn more about how to use the Interactive features as well as to enjoy solving more samples in progressive sizes and difficulty levels.

We recently went on a quest to actually find an Atom-based Mobile Internet Device (MID) or UMPC for sale in the retail channel, and we failed. So we turned to Intel and to professional channel watchers for help, and they failed, too (with the sole exception

As college students get ready for a new year of classes, there's a lotto worry about than Shakespeare and molecular biology. With therecession, colleges are raising prices at just the timewhen students and their families are least able to afford it. Worse, atight job market has made it difficult for some students to raise cash

Security and rules kept 47 passengers confined all night in a small plane at Rochester due to thunderstorms. They spent the night trapped inside a small airplane, parked at the Rochester airport, complete with crying babies and the aroma of over-used toilets.

Surgeons claim to have carried out Britain's first eyelash transplant on a 19 year-old from Stockport, Cheshire. The teenager had the treatment because she suffers from trichotillomania - obsessive plucking or pulling out hair. It costs around £3,500 and the lashes thicken up gradually between four and six months after treatment.

It's almost time for Burning Man, and you know what that means -- no, not rampant nudity -- dust. Lots and lots of dust. Tim Elverston decided to make his own pair of black leather dust goggles -- tres Mad Max

For just less than a decade, NASA's Institute for Advanced Concepts was the staid space agency's big-vision mashup of Willy Wonka's factory, DARPA and your crazy uncle's garage workshop. And now experts want to bring it back.

Because of outdated paternalistic NBA rules largely aimed at protecting NBA teams/owners from each other -- & their own uncontrolled greed -- the richest basketball league in world (NBA) that wants to become truly global can't buy out Rubio's current Spanish team contract.

Would District 9, already labeled the must-see film of the summer, exist if the Halo film produced by Peter Jackson hadn't fallen apart? Director Neil Blomkamp discusses this, talks about seeing the movie at Comic-Con, answers the question "why film in Johannesburg?", and compares his hometown to Blade Runner on the eve of District 9's release.

Some more advanced techniques and effects you can achieve with CSS. Everything from creating your own online apps (like calendars) to styling web pages for use with the iPhone to some basics of working with CSS3 is covered here.

Nearly four years after the police shootout that took the lives of Ronald Madison and James Brissette on New Orleans' Danziger Bridge, the FBI raided the offices of the police investigators who had been looking into the deadly incident.

Hollywood has a problem. It's red, boxy, lets you rent DVDs for $1 a night, and is severely threatening movie studios from making money. The threat is Redbox self-serve DVD rental kiosks outside McDonalds and in grocery stores.

In the latest phase of the nanotechnology revolution, scientists have built a collection of minuscule objects from DNA, including toothed gears, curved tubes, and a wireframe beach ball five millionths of a centimetre in diameter.

How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens Our Future is the new book by Chris and Sheril of The Intersection (formerly on ScienceBlogs, now at Discover), and they were kind enough to include me on the list of people getting review copies. It turned up on Friday (after I'd already started Newton and the Counterfeiter).

If you're down with the latest freshness, like we know you are, you'll already be aware of light writing and the radical imagery that can be created through the use of long camera exposures and stop motion animation. Well, get ready to do your thing with even more style, thanks to the Halo LED spraycan.

In Aesop's fable 'The crow and the pitcher' a thirsty crow uses stones to raise the level of water in a pitcher to quench its thirst. A new study published online in the journal Current Biology demonstrates that rooks, birds belonging to the corvid (or crow) family, are able to solve complex problems using tools and can easily master the same....